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In Visual Studio Code, is there any way to force the auto-scrolling option of the Output panel permanently enabled? At the moment I have to click on the lock button every time I build my project to disable the scroll lock or better to say enable the auto-scrolling feature and this is so annoying.

I took a look at the settings but couldn't find any relevant parameter there.

Any ideas?

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    There is an open issue in the vscode project about this behavior. Commented Nov 21, 2019 at 7:23

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An option to turn off the smart scroll feature was included in one of the recent updates (probably in the March 2020 update, I didn't find it in the changelog), see more: issue #69480

Since then, I've been able to "save" the scroll state, try this:

  1. Go to File > Preferences > Settings (or Ctrl + ,)
  2. In Features > Output, disable Smart Scroll option (or search output.smartScroll.enabled)

Tested with VSCode version 1.45.1 and CodeRunner 0.10.0

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I wish I could upvote this answer twice. This behaviour of VS Code is a massive pain and I couldn't figure out for the life of me why the output window only sometimes scrolled.
Let's not forget upvoting the question itself :).
@SRSR333 I'll upvote it for you. It got me half way to what I was looking for. I want it to auto scroll, AND in some way indicate it has done so. My sass compiles but its instant and I see no change in the output window because the last message is identical. I wonder if there's some way to indicate this as I use it to verify the compiler ran and Im not just wasting my time hard refreshing a thousand times
I hate those "smarts" controls that pretend to be what does not is neeeded to be
I needed to exit and restart vscode for this change to take effect.
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Smart scrolling allows you to lock scrolling automatically when you click in the output view and unlocks when you click in the last line

So clicking on the last line will auto scroll to the last line. I made a habit of doing that. Of course disabling Smart Scrolling is the permanent solution.

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its been irritating me for years. I think everyone did that
Seems for me the disable Smart Scrolling fixes it partially, only when the window has focus. Is it possible to keep the the scroll bars visible, i.e. "Inactive Window Color"...?

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